5. ECAL 1999: Lausanne, Switzerland

@proceedings{DBLP:conf/ecal/1999,
  editor    = {Dario Floreano and
               Jean-Daniel Nicoud and
               Francesco Mondada},
  title     = {Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, ECAL'99,
               Lausanne, Switzerland, September 13-17, 1999, Proceedings},
  booktitle = {ECAL},
  publisher = {Springer},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {1674},
  year      = {1999},
  isbn      = {3-540-66452-1},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Keynote Lectures

• Hans Meinhardt:
  From Fertilized Eggs to Complex Organisms: Models of Biological Pattern Formation. 3-4
  
• William D. Hamilton:
  Fables of Cyberspace: Tapeworms, Horses, and Mountains. 5-6
  
• Luc Steels:
  Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment. 7
  
• Tim Lenton:
  Testing Gaia Theory with Artificial Life. 9-10
  

Epistemology

• Edmund M. A. Ronald, Moshe Sipper, Mathieu S. Capcarrère:
  Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life. 13-20
  
• Paul Domjan:
  Are Romance Novels Really Alive? A Discussion of the Supple Adaptation View of Life. 21-25
  

Evolutionary Dynamics

• Richard A. Watson, Jordan B. Pollack:
  How Symbiosis Can Guide Evolution. 29-38
  
• Yuka Yamamoto, Takahiro Sasaki, Mario Tokoro:
  Adaptability of Darwinian and Lamarckian Populations toward an Unknown New World. 39-48
  
• Tsutomu Oohashi, Tadao Maekawa, Osamu Ueno, Emi Nishida, Norie Kawai:
  Requirements for Immortal ALife to Exterminate Mortal ALife in One Finite, Heterogeneous Ecosystem. 49-53
  
• Gabriela Ochoa, Inman Harvey, Hilary Buxton:
  Error Thresholds and Their Relation to Optimal Mutation Rates. 54-63
  
• Seth Bullock:
  Are Artificial Mutation Biases Unnatural? 64-73
  
• Stevan Jay Anastasoff:
  Evolving Mutation Rates for the Self-Optimisation of Genetic Algorithms. 74-78
  
• Sevan G. Ficici, Jordan B. Pollack:
  Statistical Reasoning Strategies in the Pursuit and Evasion Domain. 79-88
  
• Atsuko Mutoh, Satoru Oono, Kousuke Moriwaki, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Hidenori Itoh:
  An Evolutionary Method Using Crossover in a Food Chain Simulation. 89-93
  
• Tim Taylor:
  On Self-Reproduction and Evolvability. 94-103
  
• Russell K. Standish:
  Some Techniques for the Measurement of Complexity in Tierra. 104-108
  
• Andreas Rechtsteiner, Mark A. Bedau:
  A Generic Neutral Model for Quantitative Comparison of Genotypic Evolutionary Activity. 109-118
  
• Henning Schwöbbermeyer, Jan T. Kim:
  A Comparative Analysis of Biodiversity Measures. 119-128
  
• Charles Ofria, Christoph Adami, Travis C. Collier, Grace K. Hsu:
  Evolution of Differentiated Expression Patterns in Digital Organisms. 129-138
  
• Arno Rasek, Walter Dörwald, Michael Hauhs, Alois Kastner-Maresch:
  Species Formation in Evolving Finite State Machines. 139-148
  
• Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan:
  Genetic Code Degeneracy: Implications for Grammatical. 149-153
  
• Josh C. Bongard:
  Coevolutionary Dynamics of a Multi-population Genetic Programming System. 154-158
  
• Vesselin K. Vassilev, Julian F. Miller, Terence C. Fogarty:
  The Evolution of Computation in Co-evolving Demes of Non-uniform Cellular Automata for Global Synchronisation. 159-169
  

Evolutionary Cybernetics

• Stefano Nolfi, Domenico Parisi:
  Exploiting the Power of Sensory-Motor Coordination. 173-182
  
• Dario Floreano, Joseba Urzelai:
  Evolution of Neural Controllers with Adaptive Synapses and Compact Genetic Encoding. 183-194
  
• Auke Jan Ijspeert:
  Synthetic Approaches to Neurobiology: Review and Case Study in the Control of Anguiliform Locomotion. 195-204
  
• Richard Walker, Orazio Miglino:
  Replicating Experiments in "Detour Behavior" with Artifically Evolved Robots: An A-Life Approach to Comparative Psychology. 205-214
  
• Rens Kortmann, John Hallam:
  Studying Animals through Artificial Evolution: The Cricket Case. 215-224
  
• Anil K. Seth:
  Evolving Behavioural Choice: An Investigation into Herrnstein's Matching Law. 225-235
  
• John Albert:
  Modeling of an Early Evolutionary Stage of the Cnidarian Nervous System and Behavior. 236-245
  
• Ranit Aharonov-Barki, Tuvik Beker, Eytan Ruppin:
  Spontaneous Evolution of Command Neurons, Place Cells and Memory Mechanisms in Autonomous Agents. 246-255
  
• Ádám Rotaru-Varga:
  Modularity in Evolved Artificial Neural Networks. 256-260
  
• Maciej Komosinski, Szymon Ulatowski:
  Framsticks: Towards a Simulation of a Nature-Like World, Creatures and Evolution. 261-265
  
• Tony Belpaeme:
  Evolving Visual Feature Detectors. 266-270
  
• Seiji Yamada:
  Evolutionary Design of Mobile Robot Behaviors for Action-Based Environment Modeling. 271-275
  

Bio-inspired Robotics and Autonomous Agents

• Jun Tani, Yuuya Sugita:
  On the Dynamics of Robot Exploration Learning. 279-288
  
• Ian Kelly, Owen Holland, Martin Scull, David McFarland:
  Artificial Autonomy in the Natural World: Building a Robot Predator. 289-293
  
• Yasuhisa Hasegawa, Yoshikuni Ito, Toshio Fukuda:
  Behaviour Adaption on Behavior-Based Controller for Brachiation Robot. 294-303
  
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Nikolay G. Rambidi, Alan F. T. Winfield:
  Wet Artificial Brains: Towards the Chemical Control of Robot Motion by Reaction-Diffusion and Excitable Media. 304-313
  
• Sorin Moga, Philippe Gaussier:
  A Neural Structure for Learning by Imitation. 314-318
  
• Mathias Quoy, Philippe Gaussier, Sacha Leprêtre, Arnaud Revel:
  A Neural Model for the Visual Navigation and Planning of a Mobile Robot. 319-323
  
• J. A. Becerra, José Santos Reyes, Richard J. Duro:
  Progressive Construction of Compound Behavior Controllers for Autonomous Robots Using Temporal Information. 324-328
  
• Axel Löffler, Jürgen Klahold, Manfred Hußmann, Ulrich Rückert:
  A Visualization Tool for the Mini-Robot Khepera: Behavior Analysis and Optimization. 329-333
  
• Thomas Netter, Nicolas H. Franceschini:
  Towards UAV Nap-of-the-Earth Flight Using Optical Flow. 334-338
  
• Tom Quick, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Graham Roberts:
  On Bots and Bacteria: Ontology Independent Embodiment. 339-343
  
• Daniel Thalmann:
  Populating the Virtual Worlds with Interactive Perceptive Virtual Actors. 344
  
• Soraia Raupp Musse, Marcelo Kallmann, Daniel Thalmann:
  Level of Autonomy for Virtual Human Agents. 345-349
  
• Aapo Hyvärinen, Timo Honkela:
  Emotional Disorders in Autonomous Agents? 350-354
  
• Mark Witkowski:
  Integrating Unsupervised Learning, Motivation and Action Selection in an A-life Agent. 355-364
  
• George G. Szpiro:
  Can Computers Have Sentiments? The Case of Risk Aversion and Utility for Wealth. 365-374
  

Self-Replication, Self-Maintenance, and Gene Expression

• Daniel Mange:
  Towards Robust Bio-inspired Circuits. 377-378
  
• Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, Alvaro Moreno, Federico Morán, Juli Peretó, Juan J. Merelo Guervós:
  Designing a Simulation Model of a Self-Maintaining Cellular System. 379-388
  
• Hugues Bersini:
  Design Patterns for an Object-Oriented Computational Chemistry. 389-398
  
• Naoaki Ono, Takashi Ikegami:
  Model of Self-Replicating Cell Capable of Self-Maintenance. 399-406
  
• Oliver Sharpe:
  Evolution at the Origins of Life: Modelling Simple Persistent Replicating Objects. 407-411
  
• Hideaki Suzuki:
  A Simulation of Life Using a Dynamic Core Memory Partitioned by Membrane Data. 412-416
  
• Claus O. Wilke, Christopher Ronnewinkel, Thomas Martinetz:
  Molecular Evolution in Time-Dependent Environments. 417-421
  
• Tomoyuki Yamamoto, Paulien Hogeweg:
  Evolution to Complexity: Replication, Elongation and Assembly in an RNA World. 422-426
  
• Kouji Harada, Takashi Ikegami:
  Evolution of Multispecificity in an Immune Network. 427-431
  
• Andrew Adamatzky, Owen Holland, Chris Melhuish:
  Laziness + Sensitivity + Mobility = Structure. Emergence of Patterns in Lattice Swarms. 432-441
  
• Cesar Ortega-Sanchez, Andrew M. Tyrrell:
  Self-Repairing Multicellular Hardware: A Reliability Analysis. 442-446
  
• Enrico Petraglio, Jean-Marc Henry, Gianluca Tempesti:
  Arithmetic Operations on Self-Replicating Cellular Automata. 447-456
  
• Torsten Reil:
  Dynamics of Gene Expression in an Artificial Genome - Implications for Biological and Artificial Ontogeny. 457-466
  
• Shugo Hamahashi, Hiroaki Kitano:
  Parameter Optimization in Hierarchical Structures. 467-471
  
• Koji Kyoda, Hiroaki Kitano:
  A Model of Axis Determination for the Drosophila Wing Disc. 472-476
  
• Mineo Morohashi, Hiroaki Kitano:
  Identifying Gene Regulatory Networks from Time Series Expression Data by in silico Sampling and Screening. 477-486
  

Societies and Collective Behaviour

• Massimiliano Ugolini, Domenico Parisi:
  Simulating the Evolution of Artifacts. 489-498
  
• Martijn Brinkers, Paul den Dulk:
  The Evolution of Non-reciprocal Altruism. 499-503
  
• Ezequiel A. Di Paolo:
  A Little More than Kind and Less than Kin: The Unwarranted Use of Kin Selection in Spatial Models of Communication. 504-513
  
• Jason Noble, Elio Tuci, Peter M. Todd:
  An Evolutionary Simulation Model of Social Learning about Food by Norway Rats. 514-523
  
• Charlotte K. Hemelrijk:
  Effects of Cohesiveness on Inter-sexual Dominance Relationships and Spatial Structure among Group-Living Virtual Entities. 524-534
  
• Seth Bullock, Jennifer Nerissa Davis, Peter M. Todd:
  Simplicity Rules the Roost: Exploring Birdbrain Parental Investment Heuristics. 535-544
  
• Takashi Ikegami, Makoto Taiji:
  Imitation and Cooperation in Coupled Dynamical Recognizers. 545-554
  
• Takashi Ishida, Hiroshi Yokoi, Yukinori Kakazu:
  Emergence of Adaptive Society with Competitive Selfish Agents. 555-559
  
• Eizo Akiyama, Kunihiko Kaneko:
  Dynamical Systems Game. 560-565
  
• Yoshiki Yamaguchi, Tsutomu Maruyama, Tsutomu Hoshino:
  High Speed Hardware Computation of Co-evolution Models. 566-574
  
• Alcherio Martinoli, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Luca Maria Gambardella:
  A Probabilistic Model for Understanding and Comparing Collective Aggregation Mechansims. 575-584
  
• Chris Melhuish:
  Exploiting Domain Physics: Using Stigmergy to Control Cluster Building with Real Robots. 585-595
  
• Aude Billard, Auke Jan Ijspeert, Alcherio Martinoli:
  Adaptive Exploration of a Dynamic Environment by a Group of Communicating Robots. 596-605
  
• Jordi Delgado, Ricard V. Solé:
  Task Fulfilment and Temporal Patterns of Activity in Artificial Ant Colonies. 606-615
  
• Ann Nowé, Katja Verbeeck:
  Formalizing the Ant Algorithms in Terms of Reinforcement Learning. 616-620
  
• Annemarie E. Langham, P. W. Grant:
  Using Competing Ant Colonies to Solve k-way Partitioning Problems with Foraging and Raiding Strategies. 621-625
  
• Nicolas Monmarché, Mohamed Slimane, Gilles Venturini:
  On Improving Clustering in Numerical Databases with Artificial Ants. 626-635
  

Communication and Language

• Hidenori Kawamura, Masahito Yamamoto, Keiji Suzuki, Azuma Ohuchi:
  Ants War with Evolutive Pheromone Style Communication. 639-643
  
• Jason Noble:
  Sexual Signalling in an Artificial Population: When Does the Handicap Principle Work? 644-653
  
• Angelo Cangelosi:
  Modeling the Evolution of Communication: From Stimulus Associations to Grounded Symbolic Associations. 654-663
  
• Bart de Boer, Paul Vogt:
  Emergence of Speech Sounds in Changing Population. 664-673
  
• Ahmed-Reda Berrah, Rafael Laboissière:
  SPECIES: An Evolutionary Model for the Emergence of Phonetic Structures in an Artificial Society of Speech Agents. 674-678
  
• Luc Steels, Frédéric Kaplan:
  Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics. 679-688
  
• Edwin D. de Jong:
  Analyzing the Evolution of Communication from a Dynamical Systems's Perspective. 689-693
  
• Simon Kirby:
  Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms. 694-703
  
• Daniel Livingstone, Colin Fyfe:
  Modelling the Evolution of Linguistic Diversity. 704-708
  
• Tracy K. Teal, Daniel Albro, Edward P. Stabler, Charles E. Taylor:
  Compression and Adaptation. 709-719
  
• Christopher Dircks, Scott C. Stoness:
  Effective Lexicon Change in the Absence of Population Flux. 720-724
  
• Pierre-Yves Oudeyer:
  Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents. 725-729
  
• Takashi Hashimoto:
  Modeling Categorization Dynamics through Conversation by Constructive Approach. 730-734
  

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